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If nothing else, it's nice to see that a President can screw up the American empire this badly without getting killed by the CIA.

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Go and look.

They're a right-wing "Heritage American" who's very worried about "white genocide".

Convoluted way to say actively fighting Antisemitism, but that doesn't really excuse that comment there in any way, shape, or form.

It is nice to finally see the "anti Zionist" crowd removing their masks at last. I do appreciate the honesty.

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That sounds deranged. Tell me more.

"personally i think that if you think a transfem reading of this character makes any sense with the narrative. you lack reading comprehension. oh by the way *I* personally think that this character who's entire deal is being repressed and refusing to do any introspection, is a trans man who figured himself out at the age of like 2 and has somehow been on testosterone since he turned 13."

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There's a certain brand of feminism that sees "men do X much more than women do" as a fully sufficient argument against both men and X.

I haven't seen much of it lately, which is objectively a good thing because it sucks, but...I kinda miss it, somehow. It was fun to get annoyed at.

It’s me I’m the boyfriend.

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If you ever find yourself describing a country full of people as subhuman filth, you need to stop and reevaluate everything in your life that brought you to this point. Because something has clearly gone terribly wrong.

Don't you realize how easy it would be to write your latest substack with "Americans" substituted for "Israelis"? I knew an Egyptian who totally bought into the left-identitarian narrative that Israel is just the latest example of white Westerners continuing their oppression of non-whites, and they chided Americans for blaming the genocide on abstractions like "Zionism". For actual bloodthirsty Israelis there is no innocent Palestinian, "the Gazans shouldn't have voted for Hamas", the October 7 attacks justify every air strike and every massacre... Nothing good comes out of collective guilt.

Are you assuming I don't also feel disgust toward Americans?

Here's the thing: what we're seeing now is unprecedented since like WWII. In substance (but not yet scale), it has surpassed the actual Red Scres. Just yesterday in the UK, police arrested several Quaker women--QUAKERS--for having a private meeting that was putatively in support of Gaza. Thank god the United States doesn't have laws against hate speech (also anyone who ever supported such laws should be shunted out of public life for being too stupid to deserve to be heard). But, as I'm sure you're aware, we're now arresting, detaining, and attempting to deport legal foreign nationals for daring to criticize the genocidal actions of our favoritest ally.

Name for me another instance in which Americans were being expected to sacrifice our foundational rights to satiate the bloodlust of a foreign nation. Name a time we entered into a geopolitical suicide pact that afforded us absolutely no benefit, for no reason that can be explained without dipping our toes into the ZOG stuff.

Israelis--not Zionism, not the Israeli government, but Israeli citizens on the whole--represent a real and pressing existential threat to my country. This is something entirely different and much more serious than the regular internecine partisan bullshit that's always been at play within American politics.

I don't hate them because I want to. I don't hate them because I regard hatred as some kind of high-minded ideal. I hate them because I need to, because regarding them as anything other than subhuman filth would be a death sentence for my rights, my culture, my country, and very possibly for humanity as a whole.

Perhaps 30 or 40 years from now, we can reassess the situation and sort out some of the relatively good Israelis, like that Nazi dude who intervened to help stop the rape of Nanking. But, sadly, we exist only in the present. And if we want there to be a future, we need to stop equivocating and pretending the old rules of respectability discourse still apply.

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Wow, the OP on that Haaretz post blocked me within five minutes. For agreeing with them. Presumably because of the tag saying "Israeli Jews have very good reason to fear what would come after the collapse of the Israeli government"

But, well, it's a fact. They do.

And with every innocent person murdered by the IDF, that fear gets a bit more well-founded.

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Because the very moment they don't follow the perfect victim script she has laid out for them, they become the enemy, and the endless tide of contempt and hatred that she spews begins to fall upon them. You can ask people who actually work in the sex industry how helpful SWERF-ism is.

Exploited and enslaved sex workers need the same kind of help that other exploited and enslaved workers need; this kind of rhetoric runs directly counter to that.

do you think it's wrong to watch porn?

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I've gained a lot of respect for Haaretz over the course of this war. Takes legitimate courage for a newspaper to stand up to its government.

obviously haaretz is haaretz and has a vested interest in maintaining the state of israel but it's still so fucking insane that half the headlines they publish if you tried to put out those stories in an american newspaper it would 1) immediately get killed by an editor 2) get you fired or 3) if somehow against all odds actually published would get you arrested and deported

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Actually, the reason I care is that you're making things worse, both for those women and children (and men, whether you care about them or not) on camera and for the world as a whole.

do you think it's wrong to watch porn?

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No, it's not like sex ed at all.

You shouldn't masturbate at people on the bus either, and for the same reason.

cishet boys are living in an alternate reality, probably the same one with the flip phone from law and order svu that had 10 gigs of women’s butts on it

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Probably. But I believe in being 110% earnest at all times. Especially when confronted with sarcastic mockery.

cishet boys are living in an alternate reality, probably the same one with the flip phone from law and order svu that had 10 gigs of women’s butts on it

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No, I just have actual principles. And I don't like to see petty bullying cruelty rebranded as a social crusade.

Would be a different matter if I actually believed that the people I was talking to cared about the suffering of people in the porn industry, of course.

do you think it's wrong to watch porn?

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No matter how fine you are with porn, you shouldn't be inflicting pornographic show-and-tells on your high school classmates.

cishet boys are living in an alternate reality, probably the same one with the flip phone from law and order svu that had 10 gigs of women’s butts on it

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If you were to discover that this is entirely off-base, that I don't watch porn at all...would it change your worldview at all?

Would the discovery that your confidence was misplaced do anything to shake it?

do you think it's wrong to watch porn?

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Nah, I just talk like this. Sorry if it's confusing.

Anyway, I appreciate you admitting that the social-justice stuff is on an even footing in your mind with the middle-school-bully stuff. Everyone else can see it, but I figured you'd try and hide it.

do you think it's wrong to watch porn?

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What did she make up?

don’t believe in a disciplinary soul or the ethical sanctimony of historicisation the same way anymore (sorry fredric jameson), but something withering in me that suspiciously sounds like a pettifogging Historian with a Capital H surfaces in interdisciplinary ‘anti-capitalism’ academic groups whenever silvia federici gets positively credited for anything without the addendum, ‘this woman is making up half of her shit.’

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Sure you do.

It's a pure coincidence that your moral stances just so happen to justify your preexisting feelings of contemptuous superiority.

do you think it's wrong to watch porn?